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Texas appeals FEMA denial of over $100M in Imelda assistance

  

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Via:  larry-hampton  •  4 years ago  •  8 comments

Texas appeals FEMA denial of over $100M in Imelda assistance
The state of Texas is appealing a denial of more than $100 million in federal disaster funding for public facilities and other infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Imelda.

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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott initially requested a presidential disaster declaration for individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a half-dozen East Texas counties — including Harris, Montgomery and Jefferson counties — in October 2019 following widespread damage and severe flooding from the storm. That request was approved in October. Texas homeowners and renters have received more than $68 million through that program.


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Larry Hampton
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1  seeder  Larry Hampton    4 years ago

Texas wants money from FEMA?

What are they, a bunch of Socialists lol!?

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  Larry Hampton @1    4 years ago

Where's the rest of the story?

 
 
 
Larry Hampton
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1.1.1  seeder  Larry Hampton  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    4 years ago

I'll let ya in on a little blogging secret: If you "click" on the "seeded content" button up above, ya can read the entire article!

Wow; who would thunk it?!

 
 
 
Split Personality
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1.1.2  Split Personality  replied to  Larry Hampton @1.1.1    4 years ago

FEMA also denied Texas claims in 2013

Two schools of thought

“These are taxpayer dollars that have been appropriated by Congress for the specific purpose of disaster relief, and I am not aware that a state being fiscally responsible is a condition for denial in the Stafford Act,”

versus

“The State of Texas is not a poor state. They have significant revenues. The philosophy is that federal money should only be used as a last resort where there really is no reasonable alternative.”
 
 
 
Split Personality
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2  Split Personality    4 years ago

Going to piss off a lot of Texas voters if this stands.

On the other hand Trump will probably override it with an EO ...

 
 

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